rte_kernel_driver is only used by the PCI subsystem and has polluted ethdev for no reason. Hide it in the PCI bus driver.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9f73297173..6e86963c39 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ Deprecation Notices With this removal, there won't be a need for the mentioned workaround which will be reverted. +* pci: The ``rte_kernel_driver`` enum defined in rte_dev.h will be made private + to the PCI subsystem as it is used only by the PCI bus driver and PCI + drivers. + The associated field ``kdrv`` in the ethdev ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure + will be removed as it gave no useful abstracted information to the + applications and had no user (neither internal nor external). + * ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible will be done in 20.11. Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application -- 2.23.0
